Corbyn is beyond a joke

HOW anybody can take Jeremy Corbyn seriously is totally beyond me. However many times he met a Czech communist spy is almost irrelevant.

He was always an apologist for the likes of Fidel Castro, the Soviet Union, the IRA and other unsavoury organisations that could hardly be described as friends of the democratic West — but the idea he could ever be a spy is a nonsense. He operated on the political margins, not at the heart of government. These latest accusations merely confirm where HIS heart lies.

His only possible appeal must be his lifelong commitment to a Marxist agenda, which some misguided folk mistake for being “principled”. That is, until now. He has just done the biggest political U-turn that Westminster has ever witnessed (and that’s saying something).

Admittedly, since he took over the Labour Party, their lack of any policy on achieving Brexit has been their defining characteristic. Before the last election he promised he would support “the will of the people” as expressed in the referendum, and specifically ruled out Britain staying in the EU Customs Union. Labour voters and former Labour voters, especially in the north of England, voted for Brexit and took him at his word. Now he has betrayed that trust.

Labour is now to vote in Parliament to keep us in that Customs Union. Why? As a lifelong Eurosceptic, has he suddenly seen the light? No way, Fidel.

He simply sees an opportunity to ally with Tory anti-Brexit rebels and topple the government, opening up his hoped-for path to No 10. If Tory rebels fall for this one, they are mad. Jeremy might be a joke, but this is no laughing matter. He’s also an unprincipled menace.